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- John Field (July 26, 1782 – January 23, 1837) was an Irish composer and pianist. The Classical era at the time of John Field highlighted the ...5 KB (734 words) - 06:35, 8 April 2024
- Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer and politician. He was the nominee of the Democratic Party for ...9 KB (1,272 words) - 22:19, 25 October 2022
- height and seeming invulnerability. In 1782, the French, under Admiral ... Admiral Hood. Shortly afterward, in April 1782, he was defeated and taken ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 23:08, 20 November 2023
- His career included service at the Continental Congress of 1781-1782; member of the state house of representatives 1778-1780, 1785, and 1786; ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 11:12, 16 August 2023
- Hyder Ali or Haidar 'Ali (c. 1722 - 1782), was the de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India. A soldier-adventurer, Haider ...12 KB (1,977 words) - 18:40, 31 July 2023
- seven others. All of them were published in 1782 under the title Poems by William ... * John Gilpin, 1782 * The Task, 1785 * Homer's Iliad and Odyssey ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- (Ch'ing) Hsüan-Tsung) (September 16, 1782 – February 25, 1850) was ... The Daoguang Emperor was born Mianning (綿寧) on September 16, 1782 ...12 KB (1,653 words) - 19:28, 21 August 2020
- From 1769 until 1782, she was an annual exhibitor at the Academy, ... more than any artist he knew. In 1782 she lost her father, but became ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 18:05, 27 July 2023
- Robert Morrison (born January 5, 1782 in Bullers Green, near Morpeth, Northumberland; died August 1, 1834 in Canton) was a Scottish missionary ...15 KB (2,249 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- Mathews, and sister of Governor John Mathews (1782-1783). They had five children but only their son Daniel survived childhood. Elizabeth died in Philadelphia ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 21:17, 30 April 2023
- * Boswell: Laird of Auchinleck 1778-1782 * Boswell: The Applause of the Jury, 1782-1785 * Boswell: The English ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 08:53, 18 March 2024
- elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1782, he met personally with King ... the first of these being published in 1782. He orignally tracked double ...13 KB (1,978 words) - 10:59, 9 May 2023
- of the Académie des Sciences, and, in 1782, secretary of the Académie ... title= Seat 39Académie française | years=1782–1794 | ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
- Pietro Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, (January 13, 1698 – April 12, 1782) was an Italian poet best known for his songs ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- known as the Treaty of Salbai, was signed in May 1782, and was ratified by Hastings in June 1782 and by Phadnis in February 1783. The treaty also returned ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 05:59, 28 July 2023
- thirteenth century and last carried out in 1782, although not abolished until 1867. ... man was drawn and quartered was in August 1782. The victim, Scottish spy ...18 KB (2,928 words) - 19:19, 14 August 2020
- John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was a leading United States senator, vice president, and political philosopher from ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 16:58, 5 April 2024
- Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (or Froebel) (April 21, 1782 – ... The Story of Friedrich Froebel, 1782-1852. Autolycus Publications ...15 KB (2,345 words) - 06:41, 15 April 2024
- Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (October 27, 1782 – May 27, 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He is one of the ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 23:29, 14 November 2022
- friend and associate until his premature death in 1782. ... Under the Tory administration of Lord Frederick North (1770 – 1782 ...23 KB (3,559 words) - 18:14, 12 February 2024
- In 1782 appeared Fonvizin's second and best comedy The Minor, which definitely classed him as the foremost of Russian playwrights. His last ...7 KB (1,096 words) - 02:31, 25 August 2020
- subsequent ones, was not published until 1782, four years after his death. ... Jacques Rousseau (Les Confessions), 1770, published 1782 ...25 KB (3,929 words) - 01:04, 9 February 2023
- was born near Belper, Derbyshire, Britain. In 1782, Slater was apprenticed to a local factory master, Jedediah Strutt, who had been doing business ...8 KB (1,244 words) - 03:02, 23 December 2022
- portraiture. The Death of Major Pearson (1782-1784) celebrates the 1781 ... Watson's portrait on December 5, 1782, after listening to George ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 04:03, 3 May 2024
- :Vol. X: 3 December 1781 to 6 April 1782. ISBN 0-8078-2419-4. :Vol. XI: 7 April 1782 to 30 September 1782. ISBN 0-8078-2551-4. ...24 KB (3,805 words) - 01:32, 11 November 2022
- However, he escaped to France and his son, John (d. 1782) was the father of William Murray Nairne, who was restored to the barony of Nairne in 1824, ...8 KB (1,337 words) - 22:46, 21 October 2022
- of the former King Taksin, who had been deposed in 1782, revolted. Prince Tub led the Royal Police against Prince Kasutranuchit. After Prince Kasutranuchit ...8 KB (1,232 words) - 17:22, 16 April 2023
- Appleby. He was also a justice of the peace. In 1782 he became Archdeacon of Carlisle. At the suggestion of his friend John Law (son of Edward Law, Bishop ...9 KB (1,398 words) - 10:38, 11 May 2023
- *Carlo Broschi (Farinelli) (1705–1782) *Gaetano Majorano (Caffarelli ... *Giovanni Manzuoli (1720–1782) *Gaetano Guadagni (1725–1792) ...17 KB (2,678 words) - 14:25, 29 November 2023
- He also fought with Lord Howe at Gibraltar in 1782. Between 1783 and ... |1 January 1782||Lieutenant||HMS Princess Amelia (80) |- ...24 KB (3,787 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- |serviceyears= 1757-1782 |rank= Lieutenant Colonel, Brigadier General ... the South Carolina State Senate starting in 1782, and in 1784, in recognition ...20 KB (3,146 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- from the time of his father's death in 1782 until his own demise in 1799 ... When his father died in 1782, he succeeded as de facto ruler of Mysore ...44 KB (6,987 words) - 23:40, 30 April 2023
- strengths. She followed with Cecilia in 1782, Camilla in 1796, and The ... In 1782, she published Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress, written ...31 KB (4,786 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- East. The low point on the frontier came in 1782 with the Gnadenhutten massacre ... outpost at Pensacola, Florida. On May 8, 1782, Gálvez captured the British ...40 KB (5,862 words) - 06:46, 25 July 2023
- #039;s General Orders of August 7, 1782, and is the oldest military ... New York headquarters on August 7, 1782, it stated, "Let it be ...23 KB (3,569 words) - 00:25, 3 December 2022
- On August 4, 1782, against his father's wishes, he married Constanze ... The year 1782 was an auspicious one for Mozart's career: His ...34 KB (5,408 words) - 16:10, 10 October 2020
- #039;s "Badge for Military Merit (1782)" as the Purple Heart. That same year he also successfully advocated for conversion of the ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 22:08, 29 January 2023
- on his land. Later, a survey of Cardington in 1782 found that he was paying for the education of 23 children. In 1758, Howard married Henrietta ...10 KB (1,593 words) - 05:58, 3 August 2022
- Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862), nicknamed Old Kinderhook, was the eighth president of the United States. He was a key ...22 KB (3,321 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- |term_end4 = January 31, 1782 |birthdate = September 17, 1739 ... British from South Carolina. In January, 1782, John Rutledge’s term of ...23 KB (3,551 words) - 18:20, 29 November 2022
- during the reign of King Kirti Sri Rajasinha (1747-1782), the famous Buddhist revivalist. In addition to the fifty Buddha statues, a statue of the king ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 18:09, 24 January 2024
- Daniel François Esprit Auber (January 29, 1782 – May 13, 1871) was a French composer who became an important contributor to the French opera ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- in the leg and spent the winter of 1781-1782 at Fort Detroit. From 1781 ... Croghan and the westward movement, 1741-1782. The Great Pennsylvania frontier ...30 KB (4,676 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- | binomial_authority = (Molina, 1782) }} Vicuña is the common name for a rare, wild, gregarious South American camelid, Vicugna vicugna, found ...11 KB (1,797 words) - 23:53, 17 November 2022
- by Johann Karl August Musäus published in 1782-7. The earlier collections, however, made little pretense to strict fidelity to sources. The ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 04:36, 22 November 2023
- After Yorktown, Knox was promoted to major general. In 1782, he was given command of the post at West Point. In 1783, he was one of the founders ...13 KB (1,896 words) - 15:24, 25 January 2023
- In 1738, Swiss physician and mathematician Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) published Hydrodynamica, which laid the basis for the kinetic theory ...14 KB (2,183 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- state legislature) on September 22, 1782, which allowed Lynch to pursue ... and pro-British Tories in his district circa 1782. In these cases only ...23 KB (3,493 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- was established in many lodges. In 1782 at the Convent of Wilhelmsbad ... After 1782, this highly secretive society - a secret society that ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 19:19, 16 December 2022
- borders. He worked for a time in Edinburgh and in 1782 he moved to London where (after meeting architects Robert Adam and Sir William Chambers) he was ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- was sent to Old Mill Prison, where he died in March 1782, several months after the surrender of the British commander in the field, General Charles Cornwallis ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- Wedgwood to invest in steam-powered engines, and in 1782, Etruria was the first factory to install such an engine. As a result of the close association ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 05:23, 7 May 2024
- of Baron Gottfried van Swieten in Vienna around 1782. Van Swieten, during diplomatic service in Berlin, had taken the opportunity to collect as many manuscripts ...30 KB (4,799 words) - 07:12, 15 April 2024
- and saw much active service between 1779 and 1782, including participating in the Battle of the Chesapeake. In the memorable engagement of the Battle ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 02:50, 4 November 2022
- frigate of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1782, notorious for the mutiny which took place aboard her. * Mutiny on the Bounty happened aboard ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- treaty, which was signed on November 30, 1782. Before these negotiations began, Adams had spent some time in the Netherlands. In July 1780, he ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 07:33, 5 April 2024
- meaning "earth") was discovered in 1782 by the Hungarian Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (Müller Ferenc) in Transylvania. Another Hungarian ...14 KB (1,880 words) - 05:35, 27 February 2023
- and lodging in place of charitable grants. In 1782, the passing of Gilbert’s Union Act simplified the procedure for parishes to establish workhouses ...14 KB (2,160 words) - 23:59, 17 May 2023
- |term_start5 =July 10, 1782 |term_end5 =March 31, 1783 ... After Lord North's ministry collapsed in 1782, the Whig Charles ...28 KB (4,338 words) - 18:25, 17 April 2023
- Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was a leading American statesman during the nation's antebellum era. Webster first ...42 KB (6,358 words) - 22:07, 25 January 2024
- In 1782, Blake met John Flaxman, who was to become his patron. In the same year he met Catherine Boucher. At the time, Blake was recovering from ...26 KB (4,085 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- and fought in the Battle of Blue Licks in 1782, one of the last battles of ... Assembly, which was held in Richmond. In 1782, he was elected sheriff of ...44 KB (6,905 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- did not believe in the antiquity of the poems. In 1782 a new edition of Rowley's poems appeared, with a "Commentary, in which the antiquity ...14 KB (2,111 words) - 18:41, 30 April 2023
- and genre most typifies the Classical era. In 1782, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, founded his Imperial Wind Ensemble in Vienna. Harmoniemusik had ...17 KB (2,413 words) - 21:52, 26 December 2023
- his wife asked for a judicial separation in 1782. She was defended by Jean ... published after his liberation in 1782. It exhibits an accurate knowledge ...44 KB (6,937 words) - 18:06, 5 December 2022
- isolated the oxide of the metal from molybdenite. In 1782, Hjelm isolated an impure extract of the metal by reducing the oxide with carbon. Molybdenum ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 19:51, 9 November 2022
- | established_date3 = 1768–1782 | established_event4 = Rattanakosin ... the Great, until a coup d'etat in 1782. The current Ratthanakosin ...33 KB (4,876 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- In 1782, poor law reformer Thomas Gilbert finally succeeded in passing an act that established poor houses solely for the aged and the infirmed ...17 KB (2,625 words) - 08:51, 24 November 2022
- of State for the Southern Department from 1779 to 1782, and Lord President of the Council in 1783. He supported Lord Camden's decision against ...15 KB (2,385 words) - 20:02, 24 November 2022
- Tory Lord North subsequently resigned in 1782. George III finally accepted ... In 1782, after 12 years in office, the ministry of Lord North collapsed ...42 KB (6,393 words) - 10:46, 13 December 2023
- In 1782 he returned to the legislature of his native state, where he served until 1796. Edward was one of the most powerful political leaders ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2024
- finally promoted to full general on November 20, 1782, and later transferred to command the 11th dragoons. Gage died on the Isle of Portland on April ...15 KB (2,235 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
- John C. Calhoun was born near there on March 18, 1782. Calhoun practiced law in the city before beginning his political career. Calhoun became a congressman ...17 KB (2,385 words) - 04:41, 14 June 2023
- Monroe was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1782 and served in the Continental Congress (1783–1786). As a youthful politician ...18 KB (2,572 words) - 16:07, 8 February 2023
- | caption = Self-portrait in a Straw Hat, 1782. | birthname = Marie Élisabeth-Louise Vigée | birthdate = 1755|4|16|mf=y ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 06:24, 13 June 2023
- *Jane, born in 1782, died in 1897 *Jesse, born in 1784 or 1785; killed by his half-brother, John, in 1812 (No reason is given for the deaths of ...17 KB (2,909 words) - 16:09, 7 November 2022
- married a widow, Martha Wayles Skelton (1748-1782). [https://www.whitehouse ... (1780-1781), and a second Lucy Elizabeth (1782-1785). Martha Wayles Skelton ...48 KB (6,926 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- language "Methodical Encyclopaedia" of 1782 defines a menagerie as an "establishment of luxury and curiosity." Later on the term was ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 06:10, 13 June 2023
- feeling. After her mother’s death in 1782, Mary moved in with Fanny and her family, and worked to support them as well as her younger sisters. ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 16:16, 7 November 2022
- Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence . 1782. Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0199570737 * Bentham, Jeremy. Panopticon. 1785. Verso ...18 KB (2,665 words) - 07:56, 3 April 2024
- the Same and the Oldest History of the Human Spirit (1782-3) *God. Some Conversations (1787) 1785-95 *Ideas for the Philosophy of History of Humanity ...18 KB (2,775 words) - 14:41, 1 August 2022
- William Cowper wrote a popular poem, "Boadicea, an Ode" in 1782. [http://www.bartleby.com/41/320.html Boadicea, an ode], Bartleby.com ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 19:55, 20 November 2023
- Thonburi. When Taksin's reign ended in 1782, King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke ... is the Grand Palace, which dates to 1782 and has housed Thailand's ...46 KB (6,646 words) - 03:29, 17 September 2023
- Street. The main building was constructed between 1782 and 1793 to a Neo-Palladian design by Matvei Kazakov and rebuilt after Fire of Moscow (1812) ...19 KB (2,791 words) - 01:43, 11 March 2023
- In 1782, a gentleman by the name of John Locust discovered the coffin of Queen Catherine at the ruins of the Sudeley Castle chapel. He opened ...20 KB (3,017 words) - 16:16, 3 December 2023
- The last eruptive period took place in 1781-1782. This episode ended shortly before the arrival of Lewis and Clark in 1805. The U.S. Geological ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- in controversy over religion and politics. In 1782, he published The History of the Corruption of Christianity, which was officially burned by the ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 04:54, 7 May 2024
- of Greek and Roman artifacts to the museum in 1782. In the early nineteenth century, the foundations for the extensive collection of sculptures ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 02:44, 22 November 2023
- In June 1782, Jones was appointed to command the 74-gun America, however Congress decided to give the America to the French as replacement for ...18 KB (2,783 words) - 03:55, 2 May 2024
- attention was The Nightmare, exhibited in 1782. He painted this after a failed romance with Lavater's niece Anna Landolt and it is thought ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 13:41, 8 February 2022
- Two more patents were granted for these in 1781 and 1782. Numerous other improvements that made for easier manufacture and installation were continually ...20 KB (3,129 words) - 08:53, 1 April 2024
- 1283 | 1413 | 1575 | 1782 | 2055 | 2433 | comment= color1=#ffc0c0 | color2=black face-centered cubic 1(amphoteric oxide) 1.93 731.0 | 2070 | 3361 ...20 KB (2,849 words) - 22:08, 29 January 2023
- From 1782 to 1818, a wave of slaveholders inspired by the Revolutionary ... Selected Virginia Counties, ca. 1782-1818,] Utah State University ...41 KB (5,879 words) - 20:35, 3 May 2023
- [[Image:Mozart (unfinished) by Lange 1782.jpg|thumb|350px|Unfinished ... * John Field (1782-1837) * Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) ...41 KB (6,156 words) - 10:52, 19 December 2023
- * Vom Geist der Hebräischen Poesie 1782–1783 * Ideen zur Philosophie ... *Symphony in C sharp minor VB 140 (1782) *Symphony in C minor VB 142 (1783) ...20 KB (2,696 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
- extorted from the British government in 1782; and, himself an Anglican, he urged co-operation between the different religious sects in Ireland ...20 KB (3,240 words) - 17:54, 30 April 2023
- It was translated into a European language in 1782 by French Jesuit Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, as Art Militaire des Chinois, and that name probably ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- concerns the influence of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1782) and Swedenborgian writers on Sadhu Sundar Singh. Sharpe refers to correspondence between Singh ...21 KB (3,248 words) - 18:35, 22 December 2022
- In 1782, Marshall entered politics, winning a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, in which he served until 1789, and again from 1795–1796 ...23 KB (3,437 words) - 06:32, 3 August 2022
- fell out with his congregation and came to London in 1782, where his friends encouraged him to earn his living at writing. === Early Writing === ...22 KB (3,378 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
